Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Tuesday flagged off the first phase of the Census 2027 in the state by completing the self-enumeration process by registering his details on the self-enumeration digital platform, the Lok Bhavan said.
After completing self-enumeration, the governor exhorted everyone to wholeheartedly participate in the process and actively contribute towards an inclusive and accurate Census 2027 to make it a grand success, it said.
The self-enumeration facility is open to the general public through which they can submit their details in the portal se.census.gov.in, the Lok Bhavan said in a release.
"In the first phase of the houselisting and housing census through house-to-house visit, data on housing conditions, amenities available and assets possessed by individual households are collected," it said.
The Census 2027 marks the largest administrative and statistical exercise in the world and is India's first ever fully digital census, bidding adieu to the massive number of paper schedules that defined the previous such exercises of past 150 years of Indian enumeration, the release said.
It utilises the strength of the country in digital literacy and uses digital mode of data collection through an App-based system, rendering the entire exercise seamless, transparent, and entirely paperless, it said.
"It is a 100 per cent digital initiative and is sustainable, effectively transforming the world's largest administrative exercise into the world's biggest exercise in green governance as well," the release said.
In Kerala, Phase 1 of Census 2027 is scheduled from July 1-30, 2026, and the facility of self-enumeration is available from June 16 to 30.
